Beyond the Headlines is an ongoing series of headline-responsive lesson plans from the Pulitzer Center. These lessons seek to support teachers and students in navigating information, emotion, and perspectives on major news headlines, and to provide critical underreported stories that help connect current events to our personal lives, local communities, and systemic global issues.
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Lesson Plans
Connecting Brittney Griner’s Detention with Local Legal Injustices: Beyond the Headlines
Students examine stories that illuminate the impact of punitive legal policies in the U.S., and understand Brittney Griner's detention in Russia in the context of global legal injustices.
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Students examine how the 2022 World Cup has highlighted Qatar's history of labor exploitation and make connections between the sporting event and global issues of workers' rights and climate migration...
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Lesson Plans
Beyond the Headlines: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Students learn about the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti and explore its connection to foreign exploitation through the legacy of French colonial rule, debts, and military interventions.
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Lesson Plans
Beyond the Headlines: Justice for Mahsa (Zhina) Amini and Global Protests Against State Violence
Students learn about the protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody and connect the protests to global calls for justice in response to state violence.